No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.

Celebrity culture is something that pains me.

I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.

Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production of the self than in living.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

When they took TV to Fiji they found that after 3 years nearly 12 girls out of 100 were over the toilet bowls with bulimia because they felt inferior.

Or what man is there of you whom if his son ask bread will he give him a stone?

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.

Lipstick on your collar said you were untrue. Bet your bottom dollar, you and I are through.

Philosophy is really homesickness.

I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

The best songs just come unasked for. You don't have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.

Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard

God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return.

The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.